LARRY SANDERS: My brother Bernie 'would have beaten Trump'

Larry Sanders, the UK-based brother of US senator Bernie,
believes that his brother would have defeated Donald Trump in the
US election had he defeated Hillary Clinton to secure the
Democratic presidential nomination.

An NBC / Wall Street Journal poll published in May found that
Clinton and Trump were locked in a "dead heat" with each other in
terms of voting intention, but if Sanders were the Democratic
nominee, 53% of voters said they would support him, against 39%
for Trump.

Larry, a health spokesman for the Green party who lives in
Oxford, told Business Insider over the phone that "I think
Bernard would have beaten Trump."

He said: "He would have gotten pretty much all the traditional
Democratic votes, he would have got more young and independent
votes than Clinton — because he always did [during the Democratic
nomination contest] — and he would have got more of the white
working class votes too."

He emphasized, however, that Trump's solutions differed radically
to those of Bernie.

"Bernard has a clear and consistent policy over 30 or 40 years of
recognizing growing inequality. And inequality, of course, is
shifting resources from the bulk of the population to the very
rich. The idea that Trump will do something about that is not
plausible," he said.

"In addition to that, Bernard came up with quite reasonable ways
of tackling it. Trump's main way of tackling it was to attack
immigrants," he added.

He said: "Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining
middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics,
establishment politics and the establishment media,” and added
that he would work with him where possible while "vigorously
opposing" the "sexist, xenophobic and anti-environment policies"
espoused by the president-elect.

Larry echoed his brother's comments, and said that voters
"identified Clinton as part of that ruling group that they didn't
feel had done well by them."